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Re:Who's doing this to my internet? by nine_k on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @12:10PM (#9962577)
I always thought that the initial 99¢ per song in iTunes was partly influenced by the fact that people usually give $1 bills to street musicians (at least so they do here in NYC).

If you can pay 100¢ for a 3-4 minutes of street performance, can't you pay 99¢ (or less) for 3-4 minutes of a high-quality recording which you can listen to as much as you like?

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Re:Who's doing this to my internet? by CHY872 on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @02:38PM (#9963626)
I think that's apocryphal; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9961530 suggests so anyway. The cause is probably the same; $1 is seen as an irrelevant amount of money by most people.

Even so, you compare very different things, and the result is not terribly informative.

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